The church ladies made better shortbread cookies than Krusteaz.
Krusteaz Bakery Style Shortbread Cookie Mix Review
I didn’t know what shortbread was until I visited the homemade baked goods section of a church fair many years ago. They looked kind of bland and vanilla, but the price was right. What a delicious discovery when I got home! Yum!
I made them myself once or twice, but they didn’t taste as good as the church lady’s. Isn’t that the truth, when someone else cooks, it tastes SO much better? Or is that just me?
What is shortbread?
Basically, shortbread, sometimes called Scottish Shortbread, is just butter, sugar and flour, with a little vanilla optional. They’re not complicated. (A shortbread recipe I recently found also has chopped chocolate, from the Food Network, and it looks like it’s worth trying!)
So how could a box of cookie mix with these limited ingredients be bad, hmmm? But let’s recap. Krusteaz Shortbread Cookie Mix was…not good, not at all.. The cookies were the blandest bland ever, not buttery, and hard as a stone, to boot. Ugh.
I like the brand name of Krusteaz, and their packaging, and I’ve tried other boxed mixes from them that I liked, so I was very disappointed.
What others are saying about Krusteaz Shortbread Cookie Mix
Interesting, (fake) Amazon reviewers just loooved them!
UPDATE: Both that page and the reviews have now been removed Here is another Amazon page for them, but it says out of stock.
TastyKitchen has a recipe for them, with other brand names, so it may be sponsored (by Krusteaz), but they’re not saying.
Preview hint: It might not get better…wait until I finish the review of their Lemon Bars Mix.
Where to buy them
I got my box at Von’s, and it should be available in almost any big grocery store. But if you want it delivered to your door, Amazon had this (now out of stock) but has about 170 other Krusteaz box mixes, so you’ll probably find something you like.
Instacart still has some.
